Site Reliability Engineer

About the Job

**Overview**
The SolarWinds Cloud properties, develop unique cloud-based platforms designed to help companies collect, visualize, store, trace, and create alerts on large amounts of streaming data to manage the health of their applications. We are part of a parent company, SolarWinds which provides powerful and affordable IT management software for the enterprise to more than 100,000 customers worldwide. SWI has $500M in revenue and 40% growth year over year. Together we offer application performance management for any environment, with unexpected simplicity.
We are looking for full-time Site Reliability Engineers to help us build the scalable backend systems that power our monitoring, tracing, and metrics service platforms.
**Responsibilities**
+ Iterate, iterate, iterate.
+ Write code in Ruby, Python, and configuration management to automate repetitive tasks.
+ On-call rotation.
+ Be passionate about monitoring.
+ Believe MTTR is more important than MTBF.
+ Believe Operations provides a service instead of working tickets.
+ Understand that availability is everyone’s responsibility.
+ Optimize the entire software delivery pipeline with quality built in.
+ Believe that data trumps all mere opinions.
+ Have a belief in Agile methodologies to enable high team velocity.
**Qualifications**
+ 6-12 years industry experience
+ Significant experience with cloud-based deployment and ephemeral hardware.
+ Comfortable with a variety of *NIX platforms.
+ Experience managing significant load in the wild, comfortable with scale-out tiers, resiliency.
+ Strong scripting language experience (bash, Ruby, Python).
+ Strong intrapersonal skills with the ability to work well with other team members, customers.
+ Ability to work independently / deliver without supervision.
+ Experience implementing DevOps practices.
+ Experience managing large AWS infrastructures.
+ Plusses are Metrics, Monitoring, Graphite, Logstash.
**Perks:**
We offer great compensation packages and the opportunity to solve challenging problems with skilled
colleagues. Our team uses practices to maximize our development velocity, including but not limited to:
ChatOps, continuous integration/deployment, code review via GitHub pull requests, and preferring
asynchronous communication to meetings.
+ Competitive compensation and benefits
+ A team committed to life/work balance
+ Fewer meetings, more shipping!
**Job ID** _2017-9861_
**\# Positions** _1_
**Category** _Engineering_
**Position Type** _Permanent_
**Business Group** _SolarWinds Cloud_